Models of Democracy 3rd Edition

"The great global struggles today are not over democracy versusother forms of government but over the meanings and practices ofdemocracy themselves. There is no better critical and engagedsurvey of the complex histories and contemporary struggles overthis deeply contested concept than David Held's third and improvededition of Models of Democracy, precisely because it iswritten in awareness of its own contestability."
James Tully, University of Victoria
 
"Models is the kind of established classic which bothdemands and merits revision every decade or so."
David Beetham, University of Leeds
 
"Everyone who has used Models will welcome this newedition. Newcomers will find a wide-ranging and reliable analysisof past and present debates about democracy and gain anunderstanding of what is at issue in current globalarguments."
Carole Pateman, Cardiff University and University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles